- Rio Padice and Massimo Di Lena are members of Naples' Early Sound collective alongside Leskin. Both have discographies dating back a good few years, Padice typically exploring a softer deep house sound, Di Lena something a little more upfront. This EP for Clone Royal Oak follows Di Lena's excellent Hardlife EP—whose chunky title track found an admirer in Ben UFO, among others—and settles on a neat goldilocks zone between the two producers' styles.
These raw but light-footed analogue excursions cast Padice and Di Lena as a friskier version of the Analogue Cops, although in contrast to the often meandering live-jam style, these tracks are concise and tightly arranged. "Modulo RZ" is a louche number with crunchy percussion, its curt acid bassline a persistent pleasure. "The Octave Lord Of Ring Mode" is a little more thunderous, with a red-raw bassline and hi-hats that seem to be splitting under the weight of distortion. "Super Accompaniment" is the only minor misfire, its flaccid kick drum not quite proving an adequate foundation for the defective-circuitry synth work going on above.
Tracklist A1 Modulo Rz
B1 The Octave Lord Of Ring Mode
B2 Super Accompaniment